I had seen a clip from this but not the whole thing. Matlock showing his bar table prowess to Mizerak and Archer. Mizerak asks about the different cue balls and such. Both the big cueball and smaller magnetic ball are used. So here is some pool on old equipment, they broke with their playing cue and used Master chalk. Somehow not a skid recorded.
Vintage Bar Table Tutorial
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I had seen a clip from this but not the whole thing. Matlock showing his bar table prowess to Mizerak and Archer. Mizerak asks about the different cue balls and such. Both the big cueball and smaller magnetic ball are used. So here is some pool on old equipment, they broke with their playing cue and used Master chalk. Somehow not a skid recorded.
I watched part of this earlier. It’s an interesting artifact, but I found the presentation very stilted.
It’s not a modern instructional video and no Academy Awards were handed out.
I know there were some quips, but I didn’t take Mizerak to be simply making fun of bar table players. Matlock could play and they knew it, even if Mizerak and Archer were champions.
Also, I think it’s safe to say Mizerak made more money from the bar table than he did in all his straight pool wins. Probably all his prize money combined on the 9’. You can argue and say it was a commercial etc…. But they didn’t film a dead ball 14.1 trick shot at a room where they played 14.1, and, to paraphrase Freddy the Beard, where no NY player ever fired a second $5 barrel. They did it on a bar box and Mizerak wasn’t too proud to do it. I dunno his detailed thoughts on the issue though.